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The bowl season either wrecked havoc on the standings, or it settled the conferences in their appropriate ranking. I suppose it depends on how your conference did in the rankings, when it comes to how you look at these final results.

Three conferences fell in the rankings – none more dramatic than the Big 10, which suffered through a terrible bowl season losing seven games. The American and Mid-American Conferences also suffered, as did the SEC. The SEC’s climb in the ranking was due to the decline of the Big 10 over that of the SEC’s on-field performance.

The Big 12 was able to climb into the top five based on their impressive bowl performance and the failure of the American Conference.

The big news in the ACC dominated the bowl season which led to a relatively huge margin of victory in the conference standings. They finished with a victory margin over three tenths higher, which is a huge margin in these rankings that are all based on on-field performance.